C Pam Zhang is the author of the bestselling How Much of These Hills Is Gold and the forthcoming Land of Milk and Honey. She is a National Book Award 5 Under 35 Honoree. How Much of These Hills Is Gold was a New York Times, Washington Post, and NPR Notable Book of the Year; one of Barack Obama’s favorite books; and won the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, and the California First Fiction Prize. Hills was also nominated for the Booker Prize and a finalist for over half a dozen other prizes, including the PEN/Hemingway Award, the National Book Critics’ John Leonard Prize, and the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize. Zhang’s writing appears in Best American Short Stories, The Cut, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. She is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Civitella Ranieri, and the New York Public Library. Her work has been translated into twelve languages.
